.@GavinNewsom vetoesbill to ban neonics, prefers to wait for @CAenvironment .@CA_Pesticides to rescue impacted organisms. Tragic lost opportunity. No real commitment to holistic concept of 30X30 goals. @WadeCrowfoot People want nature protected & Gov to actually walk the talk.
So .@CA_Governor trusts the captured @CA_pesticides regulatory agency to conserve and protect the state's biodiversity when neonics have and will now continue to cause mutant frogs and other higher trophic levels that eat insects poisoned by neonics.
@ufwfoundation Wondering if @CAGovernor will have the courage to also sign #AB2164 to ban neonics for urban uses? Should be ag uses as well, but @CAlegislature sent him a good bill. What is wrong with it? Does he have better plan for protecting Californians & wildlife from hazardous pesticides?
🦅 Breaking News:Governor Newsom signs AB2183: California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Voting Choice Act.
Farm Workers will now be able to vote in union elections free from intimidation! Thank you to the farm workers & supporters who marched for the Gov's Signature. #SiSePuede
We were in the eye wall of Cat. 4 #Hurricane#Ian for over 5 hours and the back side was the worst.
I haven't experienced anything close to this in over 30 years @weatherchannel
@POWHR_Coalition Would you ask @GavinNewsom to sign #AB2164 to ban neonics for urban uses. Stop the harm to native insects, bats, birds and human risk of nerve and endocrine damage. https://t.co/aWfKIVQr1x
@DaveGoulson @PAN_UK @WildlifeTrusts Send a note to CA Gov Newsom to #2164 bans neonics for urban uses in CA; stop harm to insects, birds, bats, soil microbes that sequester carbon, nerve & endocrine risk to people https://t.co/aWfKIVQr1x
@GavinNewsom has not prioritized signing #AB2164 to ban neonics for urban uses in CA. He could have made quite a media event yesterday to stop the harm to native insects, birds, bees and nerve and endocrine damage to people. Send a letter today: https://t.co/aWfKIVQr1x
It is 60 years to the day since Silent Spring was published. In 1962, 37 pesticides were available to farmers. Today, there are more than 1,000, and total use is up tenfold. Rachel Carson would weep.
#SilentEarth @PAN_UK @WildlifeTrusts
@CASenCaballero@CAgovernor How comfortable can we be about CA grown on urban schoolyards with unlicensed application of neonics? Can we be OK with legalizing soil, insect, bird & bat killing neonics that also hurt people? @GavinNewsom Sign #AB2164. Support the Sustainable Pest Management Work Group goals.
@BuffyWicks@GavinNewsom@CASenCaballero@Scott_Wiener Important, & hope trees & shrubs in these neighborhoods won't be unwittingly drenched in soil, insect, bird & bat killing neonics associated with nerve & endocrine damage. @GavinNewsom Sign #AB2164. Show that you actually support the Sustainable Pest Management Work Group goals.
@CAgovernor@GavinNewsom It's tough going up against all those chemical companies AND retailers to ban the neonics that are killing insects and other wildlife supported by trees and shrubs, bats, birds, people. They don't know or care, but you do. You have to do it. Just get started. Sign #AB2164.
#ClimateChange has made the seas warmer, which causes the "rapid intensification" of storms we're seeing with #HurricaneIan. We cannot afford to let those temperatures climb much higher. We must decarbonize now.
https://t.co/OgPem11yKx
Agreed w/@Newsday Editorial Board in urging @GovKathyHochul to lower levels of cancer-causing chems in drinking water! Man-made chems (#PFOA & #PFOS) make their way into drinking water from legacy industrial pollution & wide use in products.
Go for ZERO! https://t.co/FYGoQpCUC0
@CAgovernor@GavinNewsom@UFWupdates Now are you going to protect them from pesticide exposure? If you can't even sign #AB2164, how are you going to realize the Sustainable Pest Management Roadmap @CaliforniaEPA @CA_Pesticides? BE STRONG! Poisons have no place, too many sick kids.